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The Embrace

Die Umarmung
The Embrace
The Embrace
Egon Schiele, Die Umarmung, 1917, Öl auf Leinwand, 100 × 170 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 4438
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
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  • The Embrace

  • Date1917
    • Künstler*in Egon Schiele (1890 Tulln – 1918 Wien)
  • Object typePainting
  • MediumOil on canvas
  • Dimensions
    100 × 170 cm
  • SignatureUnbezeichnet
  • Inventory number4438
  • Locations Belvedere, Upper Belvedere, 1. Floor (east), Room SO1
  • Schiele spent his life rattling the cage of convention. He was always provoking—with disturbing depictions of the human body and, above all, with the explicit, uncompromising eroticism of his work. In the year before his death, the painter once again explored the eternal mystery and power of erotic attraction. The man and woman are utterly absorbed in one another. Crumpled fabric underscores the intensity of their embrace. But the couple also appear strangely tense, as if they are clinging to each other with poignant helplessness. Schiele painted this work during a personal crisis and it reflects his mood of doom, also conveyed by the hard contours and the bold brushstrokes.

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